Blog: Rod Boyce: The editor's desk
Personnel in the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team out of Fort Wainwright are half a world away for a couple more months, but their interest in news out of Fairbanks hasn’t gone on hiatus while they serve in Iraq.
The Daily News-Miner, at the request of brigade personnel, has been making a pdf version of the newspaper available electronically to the brigade each day. News-Miner IT director Brian Webster worked out the details with the brigade’s staff earlier this year, and apparently the free service is an overseas hit.
“Yes, the PDFs are working great and we have about 200-300 views a day,” wrote Alex Dierkes, with Computer Network Defense at Forward Operating Base Warhorse, in an e-mail to Brian the other day. “Since we have started this there have been more than 10,800 hits to the paper on our site. The soldiers love it.
“Thank you very much for the support.”
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